Catalyst 2030's
Catalysing Change Week 2024
Building the Social Innovation Sector
6 - 10 May 2024
Sri Lanka Bee Honey – From a forest full of a medicine
Walking into a Sri Lankan forest is like walking into a medicine cabinet. so said a farmer. And this is true because 1. There is immense bio diversity in such a small space 2. So much of our plant life has medicinal benefits, which supported the indigenous 'Hela...
Leveraging Exponential Change Through Broad-Impact Philanthropy
A lot has been said about Big-Bet Philanthropy. But what about Broad Bet-Philanthropy? What about attaining a broader impact across multiple thematic and geographic verticals? For example, we can help one or two nonprofits or social-good organisations. But what about...
Healing Trees- Experiences and Results
To define
Cambio Climática y Salud Pública | Puerto Rico y la Agenda 2030
Sesión educativa sobre los diversos impactos climáticos que ocurren en Puerto Rico y cómo afectan la salud pública. Se brindarán recomendaciones sobre cómo mitigar, prevenir y responder al cambio climático en el contexto caribeño. Se vislumbra que el profesor de Salud...
Ubuntu Leadership – Africa’s Gift to the SDG’s
A dialogue with Prof John Volmink on the powerful philosophy and practice of Ubuntu Leadership, the spaces where it is manifesting, and its relevance to our current world circumstances. How the practice of Ubuntu Leadership is an embodiment of civic consciousness, and...
How Films Can Tell a Story of a New World
It is well known that the climate crisis is causing a significant amount of challenges for the flora, fauna and people of planet earth. Across the globe however, those challenges are being confronted by role models, social entrepreneurs, and change-makers both at the...
Hemp for Ever
To follow
How we can make policy-makers DO it: Making mass nonviolent resistance feasible
"I agree with you. Now go and make me do it."—Franklin Roosevelt (1943) to Civil Rights Leader, A.Philip Randolph. Winning elections and lawsuits are essential to achieving major social change. But social change history clearly proves that they are entirely...
Youth Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: A Case Study from Kenya & Haiti
The key to accelerating social change in emerging markets lies in leveraging the abundance of resources that already exist within those contexts. Among these are young people’s passion and innovative ideas for developing their communities. This interactive panel...